المعلقات السبع (The Seven Suspended Odes — Arabic text with English)

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PREFACE.

The accompanying translation is intended to be nothing more than an aid to the student, and for this reason it has been made as literal as possible. Notes and explanations have been added in all cases where the sense is obscure, and it is hoped that by their aid beginners even will experience little or no difficulty in reading the original.

All different readings, and different interpretations which have good authority and have come to hand, have been included in the notes. Lines which have been found in some copies and not in others are marked with asterisks for the sake of distinction.

My best thanks are due to Shaik Faizullahbhâi, Esq., B.A., of Bombay, a really first-class Arabic scholar, for the trouble he took in revising the proof sheets. During revision he considerably enlarged the notes, &c., so as to bring the work within the grasp of all.

F. E. J.

Kirkee, 29th January 1893.

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